1774957 - Include the contents of about:support as part of all profiles captured via the gecko profiler

Status: NEW

(Core :: Gecko Profiler, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mayank Bansal]

When capturing a profile, let it automatically copy all the contents of about:support and embed it within the profile itself.

Benefit: Will reduce the need to manually copy about:support.
Disadvantages: Implementation/maintenance burden

Maybe restrict it to Nightly only for any data privacy concerns.

Comment 1

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

Good idea, as it's often requested when people report performance issues.

I'm not sure how this mountain of data could be shown in profiler.firefox.com. Bug 1676271 also wants to add more data that doesn't really belong in stacks or markers, so eventually we may want a way to present this other kind of data.

Comment 2

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Bug 1741981 suggests adding a new "entry point" to the UI for this.

Comment 3

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

We got another comment about that today.
Maybe we can do it simple: embed the JSON in the profile, and only provide a way to download it from the profile info panel. We don't need to be too clever and try to display it.

This bug would be about embedding it in the JSON. This would be already very useful because we could look at it from the Console (we'll just need to make sure we'll keep it in the processing phase).